Most recently, the EU has questioned whether Googles's unified privacy policy is legal, and was sued by Foundem, which has been working with Microsoft and the FairSearch players, for anti-competitive conduct.
Changing of Google Privacy Policy from US to EU. So a year has come and gone in the NSTIC and the issue of privacy seems to still be at the forefront. No more passwords is the main selling point of the NSTIC program to the User (Me), so it takes a...
Privacy Policy/Privacy My Account Services SEOs understand the importance of submitting a sitemap to Google via Webmaster Tools; but in this Google Webmaster video Matt Cutts is explicit that an HTML sitemap for users will help with search rankings...
The new service is launching less than a month after Google moved forward with changes to its privacy policies, condensing more than 60 separate policies down to one all-encompassing policy. Attorneys General and other privacy watchdogs who claimed...
Our new Privacy Policy gets rid of those inconsistencies so we can make more of your information available to you when using Google. The new policy doesn't change any existing privacy settings or how any personal information is shared outside of...
The privacy policy change mainly affects users with a Google Account, and you can continue to use many of our services — including Search, Maps and YouTube — when you are logged out. Even as users remain ignorantly blissful, last-ditch efforts...
How many minutes did those same users spend on YouTube, Blogger, in Google Analytics, using Google’s core offering to search the web, or on one of the other 60 or so services to be combined under their new privacy policy?
the start date of the project appears to be March 1, the same day Google's new privacy policy goes into effect. To participate you have to be at least 13 years old, have a Google account, and use the Chrome web browser.
Google announced plans to consolidate more than 60 policies into one “simplified” easy-to-read privacy policy, that Google said “makes clear that, if you’re signed in, we may combine information you've provided from one service with information...
Questions over Google’s new privacy policy continue despite their best efforts to quell fears. Should Google Bow to EU Pressure to Pause the New Privacy Policy Launch? The problem we seem to see over and over with privacy and other Internet-related...
Google said that its privacy policy has restricted its ability to combine information for two services: web history and YouTube. The great Google privacy policy change freak out continues. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.and Jackie Speier (D-Calif.giving an...
Our new Privacy Policy makes clear that, if you’re signed in, we may combine information you've provided from one service with information from other services. A new unified Google privacy policy is coming in March.
This change in policy is bad news for website owners who want to use analytics to improve onsite experience for their visitors. The SEO community has already mounted vehement responses calling the privacy claim a smokescreen for Google to quietly...
Just two years ago in 2009, in the name of Internet freedom, Google refused to go along with South Korea’s Real ID/Real Name policy. Wait though, isn’t Google’s real name policy about marketing? The Federal Government will enable the private sector...
How does Google justify its real name policy? Despite this huge push, Google admits their name policy “may not be for everyone at this time. In a Google+ post, NPR’s Andy Carvin, summarized the former CEO’s response to a question about Google’s...
While this may appear as easy as the stroke of a policy pen ("Just let the businesses in! Defense of the policy while adamant, is easily shot through with holes so large you could drive a train through them, leaving a result that cannot logically...
He asked the FTC to investigate Google, saying the company's privacy policy is deceptive: The class action seeks "monetary relief for those whose search queries were wrongly shared, and injunctive relief to prevent continued privacy abuses.
Check out Facebook's privacy policy and this update to the privacy setting. Privacy is an important factor here and you need to know how to protect yourself. Setting up Facebook and Privacy You need to set up a free account first.
If you ask for personal information via a sign up or contact form, then you need a privacy policy. Have a static HTML sitemap and an XML sitemap that can be uploaded to your Google Webmaster Tools account.
Features that require use of a Google Account, like Bookmarks, store information with your Account as explained in the main Google Privacy Policy. It appears to me that Google updated the Google Toolbar Privacy Policy yesterday.
